Hi Galen,
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:19:09AM -0600, Galen Shipman wrote:
>
> > With current code this is not the case. Order tag is set during a
> > fragment
> > allocation. It seems wrong according to your description. Attached
> > patch fixes
> > this. If no specific ordering tag is provided to allocation
> > function order of
> > the fragment is set to be MCA_BTL_NO_ORDER. After call to send/put/
> > get order
> > is set to whatever QP was used for communication. If order is set
> > before send call
> > it is used to choose QP.
> >
>
> I do set the order tag during allocation/prepare, but the defined
> semantics are that the tag is only valid after send/put/get. We can
> set them up any where we wish in the BTL, the PML however cannot rely
> on anything until after the send/put/get call. So really this is an
> issue of semantics versus implementation. The implementation I
> believe does conform to the semantics as the upper layer (PML)
> doesn't use the tag value until after a call to send/put/get.
>
> I will look over the patch however, might make more sense to delay
> setting the value until the actual send/put/get call.
>
Have you had a chance to look over the patch?
--
Gleb.
